Re: Link t the souce code - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Link t the souce code
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Msg-id 20210506215336.GA15748@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Link t the souce code  ("Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>)
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Hello

On 2021-May-04, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:

> reading this: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/install-getsource.html
> ...
> I wonder if the link should not directly point to the relevant release, e.g.:
> https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v13.2/
> 
> To me that seems to be more convenient than figuring that out on
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/. The initial page is about
> getting the source code, so links to packages/binaries are not
> required if someone is looking for the source. 

I agree -- if the user wanted packages, they would not be reading that
page of the docs.  I'd just have it point to the same page that the
download page points to for source downloads, not a version-specific
one, as in the attached patch.

How does it look?

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Álvaro Herrera                            39°49'30"S 73°17'W

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